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Forgotten man Ross Brawn has a right to feel proud of his role in Mercedes’ race to supremacy

Kevin Eason

October 13 2014, 1:01am, The Times

Rosberg locks up next Hamilton while approaching turn two at Sochi AutodromPauil Gilham / Getty Images

The gleaming trophy sat proudly in the team’s hospitality suite as the champagne corks popped and shirts bearing the legend “world champions” were donned. Mercedes, one of the proudest names in the history of motor racing, won the constructors’ world championship yesterday, and with the same crushing dominance that they have shown all year.

Lewis Hamilton won the Russian Grand Prix, followed home by Nico Rosberg. That was the team’s eighth one-two of the season; it was Hamilton’s ninth victory of the campaign and these two are now effectively the only drivers who can contest the drivers’ world championship.

They are blessed with a car of such immense supremacy that you feel they could have taken in the scenery of Sochi’s Olympic Park as they…